Christoph Sydow
{{Short description|German journalist (1985–2020)}}
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| nationality = German
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Christoph Sydow (February 11, 1985 – 1 June 2020) was a German journalist who worked for Der Spiegel as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East.
Life
Sydow had been interested in political journalism from an early age, often carrying around issues of his later employee's magazine and impressing classmates by acting as a "walking encyclopedia".{{cite web|url=https://magazin.zenith.me/de/gesellschaft/nachruf-zum-tod-des-journalisten-christoph-sydow|title=Nachruf zum Tod des Journalisten Christoph Sydow|website=magazin.zenith.de|date=10 June 2020|language=de|access-date=11 June 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610132619/https://magazin.zenith.me/de/gesellschaft/nachruf-zum-tod-des-journalisten-christoph-sydow |archive-date=2020-06-10 }} While working on his degree in Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin, he co-founded the {{ill|Dis:orient|lt=Alsharq|de}} blog in 2005, a platform for students to publish own articles about the Middle East. In 2013, this blog was nominated for the Grimme Online Award.{{cite web|url=https://www.grimme-online-award.de/archiv/2013/nominierte/n/d/alsharq/|title=Alsharq - Nominierte|publisher=Grimme Online Award|language=de|access-date=11 June 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610180539/https://www.grimme-online-award.de/archiv/2013/nominierte/n/d/alsharq/ |archive-date=2020-06-10 }}
In 2009, he began working for zenith, an independent German magazine specialized on events in the Arab world. During the Arab Spring in 2011, Sydow first became known to a wider audience by appearing as an expert on the topic in several forms of media.{{cite web|url=https://detektor.fm/politik/libyen-die-person-gaddafi-und-die-sanktionen-des-un-sicherheitsrates|title=Libyen – Der Charakter "Gaddafi" und die Sanktionen des UN-Sicherheitsrates|publisher=detektor.fm|date=28 February 2011|last=Sydow|first=Christoph|language=de|access-date=11 June 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110316025654/http://detektor.fm:80/politik/libyen-die-person-gaddafi-und-die-sanktionen-des-un-sicherheitsrates/ |archive-date=2011-03-16 }} Sydow joined Der Spiegel in 2012 and soon became their main correspondent in the Middle Eastern region, soon acquiring an internal reputation for his particularly meticulous and precise methods.{{cite web|url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/zum-tod-von-christoph-sydow-mensch-christoph-a-bf02a208-bd49-4241-ab90-64e0847bd02b|title=Zum Tod von Christoph Sydow: Mensch, Christoph!|publisher=Der Spiegel|date=10 June 2020|last=Hans|first=Barbara|language=de|access-date=11 June 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611065451/https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/zum-tod-von-christoph-sydow-mensch-christoph-a-bf02a208-bd49-4241-ab90-64e0847bd02b |archive-date=2020-06-11 }}
Sydow, who was married and had two children, killed himself on 1 June 2020.
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